Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): Apokaliptika
Studies

Flood stories and the divine personification of the Flood in ancient Mesopotamia

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András Bácskay
Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar — Budapest
DOI: https://doi.org/10.61176/Axis.2023.4.1.4

Published 2023

Keywords

  • Flood,
  • Ninurta,
  • Marduk

How to Cite

Bácskay, A. (2023). Flood stories and the divine personification of the Flood in ancient Mesopotamia. Axis – Journal of Religious History and the History of Ideas, 4(1), 45–55. https://doi.org/10.61176/Axis.2023.4.1.4

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Abstract

The paper aims to investigate ancient Mesopotamian concept of the mythical Flood which describes the annihilation of the human kind. In this paper I present, at first various Mesopotamian cuneiform sources containing narratives of the Flood then I discuss further sources describing the personification of the Flood as a destructive divine force associated with the divine sphere.

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